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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rosy with the rush of shipping business that has brought the flush of health to many a wan railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...
...Recently U. S. Steel turned up in the black (by 47? a share) for the first time since 1937. By last week's end Steel common had fallen almost five points, stood at 70¼ compared to its September high...
Died. Harriet Fisher Andrew, 72, first woman to tour the world in an automobile, for 41 years the only active woman manager of a U. S. iron foundry, first woman member of the National Association of Manufacturers; of diabetes; in Ewing Township...
Died. Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, 80, learned, rugged president-emeritus of Johns Hopkins University (president 1914-29), after long illness; in Baltimore, Md. For two years Dr. Goodnow was legal and constitutional adviser to the first government of the Chinese Republic...
Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...